On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to implement some userspace<=>kernel interface that will
> allow applications (sanitizers)
> to request *fixed* address ranges from the kernel at startup (so that the
> kernel couldn't refuse)?

Wouldn't building non-PIE accomplish this?

Well, many asan users do need PIE.

Then, non-PIE only applies to the main executable, all DSOs are still

PIC and the old change that moved DSOs from 0x7fff to 0x5555 caused us quite a bit of trouble too, even w/o PIE

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security